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UNITED STATES WASTE RECEIVER FOB VACUUM-CLEANER BAGS.

Application filed Kay 13, 1927, Serial No. 191,018. Renewed October 8, 1928.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in devices for facili tating the emptying of vacuum cleaner bags, whereby the dust, along with dirt, will be properly trapped and not allowed to escape a into the room during the emptying process.

In the drawings-- Fig. 1 is a side elevation on a reduced scale of my device as in use, said view being partly broken away in section;

Fig. 2 is a relatively enlarged detail view, chiefly in section;

Fig. 3 is a sectional, fragmentary view of a modification;

Fig. 4 is a view, partly in side elevation and partly in section, of another modification.

1 represents the usual bag such as is attached to a vacuum cleaner. The open end of this bag is usually provided with a ringlike reinforcement 2 of some suitable kind. When such bags are removed from the vacuum cleaner they contain a great quantity of finely divided dust-like material, as wel as heavier particles of refuse, that the machine has picked up. In the emptying of such bags must dust frequently escapes. To pre vent this I provide an improved receptacle into which the entire contents of the bag may be transferred, without allowing dust The main body 3 of the receptacle may be of any suitable shape, such as a can of suitable size. 4 is what I will term a detachable stopper, which may be slid into the open end of the can and held there friction tight or by a bayonet joint, the two parts of such a joint being indicated, respectively, at 5-6. The stopper is provided wit an opening in the center, with a depending flange 7 preferably provided with an annular groove or recess therein, to receive the reint'orcement 2, as very clearly seen in the enlarged view (Fig. 2). Manifestly, the stopier would be inverted when applied to the bag, so that the contents of the latter would not escape.

\Vhcn the ring 2 is in place in the groove any suitable fastening may be employed, such as one or more spring clips 8, to clamp the bag and the stopper together. The neck"? for the opening in the stopper is reduced in diameter, so as to aiiord clearance for the fastening means 8, between the said neck 7 and the wallot the can 3.

The can 3 is applied to the stopper 4 bottom up, and when securely in place the parts are reversed into the position shown in Fig. 1, so that the contents of the bag will fall down into the receptacle 3, which,

then being closed by the stopper 4, receives all the dirt and dust from the bag 1. When the bag is fully emptied the stopper 4 may be detached and the bag may be detached from the stopper and returned to the vacuum cleaner, whereupon the contents of the receptacle 3 may be emptied at some remote po nt, where the escape of dust will not be 111111110118.

In Fig. 3 I have shown a modification in ,which I provide an adapter 9, which is in the form of a sleeve, adapted to fit into the neck f 1,109,531 PATENT OFFICE.

7 of the stopper 1 and be held there in any suitable way, as by a bayonet joint 10. The adapter has a contracted neck 11 which, in turn, ma have an annular recess 12 to receive the rein orcing flange of a smaller bag.

In the modification shown in Fig. 1 the stopper is indicated at 12, the same being.

provided with a flange 13, adapted to be slipped onto the outside of the receptacle 3, after the manner of a can cover, as shown in the other figures. 1

I claim:

1. In a device of the character described, a waste-receiving receptacle open at one end, a stopper detachably connected to the open end, a passage through the stopper, of smaller diameter than the can, with means for detachably securing the open end of a vacuum cleaner bag to said stopper around the edge of the opening therein.

2. In a device of'thc character described, a waste-receiving receptacle open at oneend,

h a stopper detachably connected to the open end, a passage through the stopper, of smaller diameter than the can, with means for decleaner bag to said stopper around the edge 1 of the opening therein, and a flange around said opening for receivlng said fastening means, said flange having an annular groove on the inner side thereof.

4. In a device of the character described, waste receiving receptacle open at one end, awaste-receiving receptacle open at one end, wherebg the contents may be freely dis- 25 a stopper detachably connected to the 0 en charge therefrom, a ring detachabl conend,a passage through the stopper, of sma ler nected to the open end, with means or de- 5 diameter than the can, with means for detachably securing the open end of a vacuum tachably securing the open end ofa vacuum cleaner bag to said ring, whereby when the cleaner bag to said stopper around the edge ring is in place in a receptacle and the bag 30 of the opening therein, and a flange around is in place on the ring, the entire contents of said opening for receiving said fastening the ag may be transferred to the receptacle,

10 means, said flange having an annular groove with means for detachably interlocking said onthe inner side thereof, said clamping ring to said receptacle. means comprising a detachable sprin clip. 7. In a device of the character described, a 5

5. In a device of the character descri ed, a Waste receiving receptacle having an opening Waste receiving receptacle open at one end, a at one end whereby the contents thereof may 1 ring slidably connected to said open end and be freely discharged therefrom and to receive detachable therefrom, with means independ- Waste from a vacuum cleaner bag, a vacuum ent of the rece tacle for detachably securing cleaner bag having a discharge opening 40 the open end 0? a vacuum cleaner bag to said therein, a ring for supportin" the bag around ring, whereby when the ring is in place in a the discharge opening, said ring being at-- 20 receptacle and the ba is in place on the ring, tachable to and detachable from said recepthe entire contents of the bag may be transtacle, said bag being detachably connected ferred to the receptacle. to said ring independently of the receptacle. 6. In a device of the character described,-a GEORGE B. OWEN. 

